Wing part arrives at French lab for probe into MH370 link

Dikemaskini :
2 August 2015

Journalists film a white vehicle transporting what is believed to be debris from a Boeing 777 plane that washed up on the Reunion Island, entering to a defence ministry laboratory (DGA TA) in Balma, near Toulouse, on August 1, 2015 where experts will begin their analysis on August 5, 2015. Boeing said it will send a technical team to France to study plane debris that authorities increasingly believe is from Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which disappeared on March 8, 2014 on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, with 239 people on board. AFP PHOTO / ERIC CABANIS

Police officers escort an airport vehicle transporting what is believed to be debris from a Boeing 777 plane that washed up on the Reunion Island, at Roland Garros airport in Saint-Marie on the French Indian Ocean island of Reunion on July 31, 2015. Plane debris that washed up on an Indian Ocean island is from a Boeing 777, Malaysian authorities said today, making it almost certainly the first piece of wreckage recovered from missing flight MH370. f confirmed by analysis of the debris, which will be flown to France on Saturday, the discovery would mark the first breakthrough in a case that has baffled aviation experts since the plane disappeared 16 months ago with 239 people on board. AFP PHOTO / RICHARD BOUHET

An aerial view taken on July 31, 2015 in Saint-Andre, on the French Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, shows the shore where a plane debris and a piece from a luggage were found on July 29. Australian search authorities today said they were "increasingly confident" plane debris that washed up on a tiny Indian Ocean island is from missing flight MH370, with formal identification possible within 24 hours. The two-metre (six-foot) long piece of wreckage -- found on in La Reunion -- was expected to arrive in France on August 1, 2015 where it will be analysed. AFP PHOTO / RICHARD BOUHET

An aerial view taken on July 31, 2015 in Saint-Andre, on the French Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean, shows the shore where a plane debris and a piece from a luggage were found on July 29. Australian search authorities today said they were "increasingly confident" plane debris that washed up on a tiny Indian Ocean island is from missing flight MH370, with formal identification possible within 24 hours. The two-metre (six-foot) long piece of wreckage -- found on in La Reunion -- was expected to arrive in France on August 1, 2015 where it will be analysed. AFP PHOTO / RICHARD BOUHET

Volunteers of the "3 E" (Eastern Environnement and Economy) association usually in charge of coastal cleaning, who found a plane debris and a piece from a luggage on July 29, search for more potential plane debris and items on the shore in Saint-Andre, Reunion Island, on July 31, 2015. Australia on July 31 said it was confident the search for MH370 was being conducted in the right area with aircraft wreckage being washed to La Reunion consistent with the zone they are scouring. AFP PHOTO / IMAZ PRESS REUNION / OUISSEM GOMBRA

A volunteer of the "3 E" (Eastern Environnement and Economy) association, usually in charge of coastal cleaning, who was with other volunteers who found a plane debris and a piece from a luggage on July 29, shows a plastic bottle of stain remover for laundry with Indonesian writing, produced in Jakarta, Indonesia, that was found on July 31 during search for more potential plane debris and items on the shore in Saint-Andre, Reunion Island, on July 31, 2015. Australia on July 31 said it was confident the search for MH370 was being conducted in the right area with aircraft wreckage being washed to La Reunion consistent with the zone they are scouring. AFP PHOTO / IMAZ PRESS REUNION / OUISSEM GOMBRA